Yibl'p.nuu HGRTUS JAMA-ICEN S*S. 2*1 



Stem sufFrutescent or herbaceous, generally five or six feet high, but varying in 

 height; font-cornered, even, brachiate, scarcely fragrant ; leaves petioled, cordate, 

 veined, naked, serrate ; spikes simple or manifold, terminating, directed one way, in- 

 terrupted, scarcely leafy ; composed ofpeduncled fastigiate whorls, supported by -se- 

 veral bristle-shaped bractes, the length of the flowers, which grow very thick together, 

 curiously disposed on the smallest slips of the branched tops ; they are whitish, and all 

 the parts'are very small ; the neck of the calyx and the filaments are commonly covered 

 with down. The corolla is scarcely larger than the calyx, the border is five-cleft, four 

 of the clefts equal, sharp, spreading, the fifth or lip purplish and roundish ; stamens 

 the length of the corolla and distant, style purplish, stigmas simple; seeds roundish, 

 black, glossy. Spikes very odorous, like those of white Horehound. It is called U ltd 

 Spikenard, and common in all the low lands and dry savannas about Kingston and Spa- 

 nish-Town. Swartz and Browne. This is the nepeta pectinata of Swartz and has also 

 been made a species of Byslropogon, 



No English Name. VIBURNUM. 



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Cl.*5, or. 3. Penianctria irigynia, Nat. or. Dumosa. 



Ges. char. Calyx a live-parted superior perianth ; corolla one-pelaled, five- cleft',, 

 bell-shaped; stamens awi-shaped filaments with roundish anther* ; the pistil has 

 an inferior roundish germ, no style but a turbinate gland, and three stigmas i the 

 pericarp is a roundish one-celled, one-seeded berry ; seed bony and roundish. 

 Swartz discovered one species in Jamaica. 



VIl.LOSUM. HOARY-VILLOSE. 



Leaves quite entire, ovate, hoary-villose beneath. 



This shrub is a fathom, in height with an ash-coloured bark. Branches round, hoa- 

 ry ; leaves petioled, opposite, acute, smoothish above, but hoary-villose beneath* 

 Petioles of a middling length, four-sided, channelled, hoary; the hoariness consisting 

 of stellate villose hairs heaped together. Cymes terminating, compound,, six-rayed, 

 sub-divided by threes. Common peduncles length of the leaves, solitary, erect, hoary ; 

 rays or partial peduncles an inch long, angular, three-cornered ; pedicels one-llowered 

 on the third sub-division. Calyx feiruginous-villose ; corolla whitish, with roundish 

 spreading segments ; filament longer than the corolla ; germ villose ; berry ite, ob- 

 lique, crowned by the calyx at the side ; seed oblique are there not two abortive ? Na- 

 tive of Jamaica on the tuountains in the southern part, flowering in autumn. Swartz. 



Vine -.See Grape-Vine. 



VINE-SORRELi 



